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Ask HN: Does HN have a moral imperative to work for good?
2 points by throwaway787544 4y ago|1 comments
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
The last person I dated and I figured out we had probably been literally face to face a couple years before at an event, and I was probably talking to her boyfriend about something.
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
If you use Linux, download an entire copy of a Linux distribution, source and binaries. Books. Get a library card.
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
This was before Infrastructure-as-Code, Immutable Infrastructure, etc were popularized. 99% of the time, on greenfield systems, you shouldn't have to use Puppet or Chef or Ansible. Runbooks-as-Code is also a great practice, similar t
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
THANK. YOU. I feel like I'm the only other person on HN that could give a shit who tracks me. The banners are so annoying! Just track me already!!!
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Try to worry a little less. You obviously cannot and will not stop worrying (welcome to parenthood!). But remember that far less well equipped people than you have been figuring it all out for thousands of years. You will too. Ask for pater
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
As long as clickbait drivel like this is upvoted, and advertising is legal, there will be internet. And after that, when we return to the primordial ooze of AOLs and Prodigys and CompuServes, and even before that to UseNet and BBSes, when t
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Because we have no industry standards for ops. There are certainly IT standards, like ITSM, but the day to day product operations are ignored. And even if there were industry standards, nobody would implement them until they were forced to,
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
In particular inet_aton() function considers a single integer to be the 32bit form. Accepts decimal, octal, and hex. https://linux.die.net/man/3/inet_aton
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Do. Not. Full. Rewrite. It would be absolute suicide and almost certainly fail. Just put that option out of your head. 1. Complete a risk assessment. List all the security, business, availability, liability, productivity, and other risks an
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Not that extreme for a constitutional monarchy bruh
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
I have worked in places where they didn't have a real ERP, and things were a mess. Hard to get anything done, hard to understand, a decent amount of time wasted. Then I worked places with SAP. And if they were lucky and just "did
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Ansible is absurdly terrible. But good luck finding anyone who wants to use any other configuration management tool for less than 20 servers. Jenkins is horrible. But it's by far the most ubiquitous ci/cd thing. Terraform is less
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
I think it's less a "Spidey sense" and more an ego self defense mechanism. You hate or fear something and go into anger mode because you want to change it. But there isn't actually any external threat - the threat is int
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Timber isn't the answer. The system is complex, and we need holistic solutions, not single-factor ones. I think the answer is to stop building so dense, reduce our population, and reintroduce more nature to our deforested, inefficientl
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
You forgot politics in your parameters, arguably the single biggest factor in building.
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Frame is just a small part of the cost and complexity of building a house. Considering you still need the CNC, and expensive materials, and a contractor, this doesn't seem like a win. On the contrary, I'd rather see more open desi
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
I am an engineer, and I rely heavily on metrics, because my job requires quantifying that a system is working correctly. It is impossible to do that correctly without metrics. Similarly, managing a product team is also managing a running sy
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Velocity is a useful engineering management metric, but solely for the Product Owner's discretion in informing the Business when some particular functionality or set of value can be delivered, based on an ordered, story-pointed backlog
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Most of them are total morons. Imagine the average genius that sticks up a liquor store, but have them go on random chat rooms asking how they can learn to sim swap.
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Johnny-Mnemonic-Black-White-Blu-Ray/d... I don't have a Blu-ray player; time to find a torrent...
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Do you like art?
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
I like the idea, but I'd rather an ICE conversion with a real drivetrain and transmission and an EV motor. I'll build it myself if no manufacturers will.
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Perl was widely used for websites through at least 2005, mod_perl being the dominant expression of it.
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
If they get the person in the door (hired) a chunk of their paycheck goes to the referring agency. And a month employed might be a year's salary back home.
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
They sometimes literally have a different person do the interview than shows up in person; no interview process catches that.
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Been happening for a decade, it ebbs and flows.
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Not disagreeing, but you have to create a shit ton of scaffolding to work around TF's lack of useful functionality and painful UX. Terragrunt exists because somebody had to do the same, and then kept adding on "smart" feature
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
I upvoted this just to keep the name on the front page longer.
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by throwaway787544 4y ago
Agreed. And nobody tries to replace it because nobody could replace all those providers without an army of engineers. And nobody is going to use a new project that only implements one or two APIs.

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